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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Devin Toolen

This nostalgic DIY recreates one of this year's biggest trends – here's how to turn a $2.50 find into an expensive-looking 'wallpaper'

A bedroom with blue bedding, blue painted walls, stamped wall design, gingham blinds, and a bookshelf over the window.

Looking at the bedroom above, you would think it was adorned in a beautiful, delicate floral wallpaper. Spoiler, it's not a wallpaper, it's actually a stamp used repeatedly across the wall to create the effect of wallpaper, but at a much smaller cost.

Stamp walls are a makeshift wallpaper idea created by Amber Catron, DIY enthusiast and founder of lifestyle brand Stoney Cove Farm. When brainstorming ways to redesign her small bedroom, she recalled a childhood memory that sparked it all. 'One of my friend’s mothers was really into DIY projects when we were kids in the 90s,' Amber said. 'I remember going to her house and seeing her mom stamp the walls in one of the rooms. I thought it was so cool then. It still is now, especially with the comeback of wallpaper.'

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